Wednesday, March 9, 2011

An invitation from Pixelversity (Andrew Paterson) to the members of Public School and Nomadic Academy

I write to welcome you & other Public School or Nomadic Academy

members (please forward) to the two upcoming Pixelversity events that launch this years programme:

1.

Su 13.3. 'Networked Culture and Education Circle',

Klo 16-17.30, Kultur Kontakt Nord office on Suomenlinna, as part of

this year's Pixelache Festival.

In my own experience of teaching Digital Media Culture course in

Metropolia, at Aalto TaiK/Pori/Medialab and elsewhere, as well as

organising workshops for various cultural festivals in Helsinki, I am aware of the subtle and overlapping relations between formal education courses in art/new media/cultural management and also that which takes place informally in the cultural scene.

I hope to use the occasion of an open circle gathering during the

festival to launch the Pixelversity programme, and invite related

local educators such as yourself to gather together. It will also

ideally be a chance to meet with festival guests who are interested in education at different levels.

The occasion will be set up as an unstructured and open forum, with

discussion in english. Welcome to bring questions to add to the query:

What role do festivals and cultural organisations have in education?

How can organised networks provide curricula? Do you know techniques

for transdisciplinary or undisciplinary studies? What and where do you wish to study and how do they connect?.. What can be Pixelversity?

Nomadic academy of experimental arts brings together those interested in arts and alternative ways of learning, promoting the "eternal network" of all arts and artists. Nomadic academy of experimental arts is a venue for experimental art, research, workshops, events, studying and teaching. It offers visibility, resources and interesting concepts to work with but doesn´t demand any ownership on the work that is done in nomadic academy.